Conflict, catastrophe and continuity : essays on modern German history / edited by Frank Biess, Mark Roseman, Hanna Schissler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biess, Frank, 1966-

Roseman, Mark.

Schissler, Hanna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germany--History--20th century.

Germany.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 406 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing together some of the most prominent contemporary historians of modern Germany alongside innovative newcomers to the field, this volume offers new perspectives on key debates surrounding Germany's descent into, and emergence from, the Nazi catastrophe.

Contents:

Kulturkampf and Geschlechterkampf : anti-Catholicism, Catholic women, and public space / Michael B. Gross

The 1923 Ruhr crisis : the limits of active resistance / Conan Fischer

Political violence, Gesinnung, and the courts in late Weimar Berlin / Pamela E. Swett

Beyond conviction? : perpetrators, ideas, and action in the Holocaust in historiographical perspective / Mark Roseman

The dissolution of the Third Reich / Hans Mommsen

The search for missing soldiers : MIAs, POWs, and ordinary Germans, 1943-45 / Frank Biess

The Kaiser and his English relations revisited / John C.G. Röhl

Appeasement and counter-appeasement : Nazi-Soviet collaboration 1939-1941 / Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann

Imperialism as a paradigm for modern German history / Uta Poiger

Americanization as a paradigm of German history / Mary Nolan

The radicalization that never was? : refugees in the German Federal Republic / Ian Connor

Germany's special path? : economic sciences and politics in the Federal Republic, 1945-1970 / Alexander Nützenadel

Catholic elites, gender, and unintended consequences in the 1950s : toward a reinterpretation of the role of conservatives in the Federal Republic / Mark Edward Ruff

Memory, morality, and the sexual liberalization of West Germany / Dagmar Herzog

The modern guild : Rotary clubs and bourgeois renewal in the aftermath of National Socialism / S. Jonathan Wiesen

Fighting to win the peace : 08/15 and West German memories of the Second World War / Robert G. Moeller

Rehabilitating Fatherland : race and German remasculinization / Heide Fehrenbach

Epilogue : Zeitgenossenschaft : some reflections on doing contemporary German history / Hanna Schissler.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-387) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-84545-200-3

9781789203721

OCLC:

1237401346